honestly the only good part in The Three Gables is Langdale Pike

Listen I love Holmes, I do, and I am not saying he's always morally in the wrong about some of his questionable actions or that he doesn't improve himself in some of the areas where he's initially problematic, but I really really do not understand why people find it so hard to believe Moriarty can be anything but "evil" and "depraved" and not have a single good quality when it's literally there in the canon that he does have positive characteristics, and also when his 'mirror' character i.e. Holmes is deeply flawed and not just one-dimensionally 'good'? 
Like for instance, I'm sorry but Holmes is horribly racist in The Three Gables and almost as bad towards Tonga in The Sign of the Four as Watson is, he is really questionable about women at times, he literally breaks the law himself sometimes even when he's supposed to be 'championing' it, he tries to steal from Irene Adler who was being basically hounded by a guy with far more wealth and power than she could ever have and who was genuinely kind and nice to Holmes when she thought he was a poor old hurt man (so much so that Watson even comments that he feels terrible about deceiving her), he lets his best friend/lover/whatever you want to call Watson think he's dead for 3 years for reasons that really make no sense. And I mean, he basically executes or tries to execute Moriarty himself instead of actually helping bring him to justice? He knew nobody else could really do that and he still fled to Switzerland, also knowing Moriarty would immediately follow him? There's something either very cowardly or very calculating about that. He is flawed. But people can accept to some degree at least that Holmes is flawed but they can't accept often that Moriarty can actually have some positive traits and far more depth to him than just being the ruthlessly Evil Villain? I don't get it.
(And Moran too, when they're not busy ignoring Moran entirely)

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I really need a better example of something where Holmes just shoots Moriarty, which is a crap ending to all of that but whatever, I'm sure I do know of other things where that happens but right now when I need another example I cannot think of anything else that does use that. The one example I can think of is a particular famous Holmes/Watson fanfic that I hated even when I actually gave a shit about shipping Holmes/Watson and there's no way I want to reference that by name in this essay. 

(Somehow this song becomes slightly unsettling (in a good way) when it's slowed down)